spark3k | 3 years ago | on: Vim-like “jump” cursor for Mac OS Window Management
I use the UHK keyboard which has butter smooth home row keys mouse movement so I never need a mouse anyway. https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/
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spark3k | 3 years ago | on: AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will
This is like saying tractors won't steal agricultural hand-ploughing jobs, the people building the tractors will. Technically true. But... stupid.
spark3k | 3 years ago | on: The Problem with Speed Cubing [video]
To make this event type completely reproducible and measurable to the millisecond there could be a new cube product which uses LEDs to show the colors of a randomly scrambled cube and start the clock at the same moment too, while the solver is holding it. Clock stops the moment the cube is solved.
spark3k | 3 years ago | on: 3D Diagrams of London Underground Stations
Do you really think that the couple hours it saves by having these maps to hand instead of a terrorist going to the station and making their own map of the public space is going to mean the difference between an attack and no attack? Get real. Let’s just get rid of all maps then hmm? Security risk.
spark3k | 3 years ago | on: Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
When I was a kid my parents had a big physical encyclopaedia set. I used to lose myself in those things just as much as I scroll through stuff now. Just because in both instances, it’s “interesting”.
But my brain doesn’t necessarily discern between “good” interesting and “bad” interesting without me trying to work it out and guiding it.
Which I normally fail at.
spark3k | 3 years ago | on: Fig now supports JetBrains IDEs
Of course there's a lot of HN bitterness here. But I like Fig. I've been running my own heavily customised .zshrc for about a decade with loads of bells and whistles in terms of autocomplete and customised prompts and what not and it has been great and I've kept it current with cool new toys.
But I've dumped most of it in the last month for Fig. I like seeing command specific options, relevant to the current context, and in a long list which I can scan and scroll quickly.
I go to documentation MUCH less now and I'm faster with it. And that's most of what I care about.
Commence retaliations...
spark3k | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal
If the business model for this was:
1) fully open source
2) ~$2.99 per user per month
3) more for team features
4) paid plugins and themes
5) opt-in and inspectable telemetry
They’d probably get their million paying users in the first year.
For this crucial part of this target market’s (engineers) toolkit, it HAS to A) be open source and B) have the option for zero telemetry.
Inb4: “if it was open source why would people pay for it?!?” Because at the right price people are happy to pay and support something they love and get low-effort trustworthy updates built in.
spark3k | 4 years ago | on: Demoing Our Displays
I’m keen to try coding in VR.
spark3k | 4 years ago | on: Less secure apps and your Google Account
Isn't this going to break their own "send mail as" feature in Gmail to send as another Gmail address you own? Which I basically use constantly.
spark3k | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What keyboard do you recommend build+use?
UHK. Warning though, once you start you can’t go back. It presents to the machine as a mouse on holding the mouse key. I take my hands off the keyboard to use the mouse 80% less now. No it’s not the same as janky Mac OS mouse keys.
spark3k | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Ukrainian and Russian friends on HN, how are you feeling?
How are you feeling? What are you thinking?
Do you feel this is overhyped or not hyped enough?
What are people in your circles saying?
Do you feel you can speak freely or is do you feel intimidation against that?
Do you feel the media is completely full of propaganda? Or telling it like it is?
Russians, are you concerned about potential sanctions on your jobs and income?
spark3k | 4 years ago | on: I would like a job writing Haskell
Hasura is brilliant and is written in Haskell mostly. Give them a try: https://hasura.io/careers/?jobId=vso4JFIiAd8G
spark3k | 4 years ago | on: Understanding UUIDs, ULIDs and string representations
Was just looking for a more human readable representation of my Postgres UUID v4 primary keys today - Douglas Crockford alphabet is perfect for that. Thanks!
spark3k | 4 years ago | on: Samsung Foundry Forum announcements
At what point does quantum tunnelling become a problem?
spark3k | 4 years ago | on: South Africa issues world’s first patent listing AI as inventor
As a South African I guarantee you that getting something ludicrous verified by a bureaucrat is not remarkable.
spark3k | 4 years ago | on: Berkeley Lab Debuts Perlmutter, World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer
Can it run Crysis?
spark3k | 4 years ago | on: Proof-of-stake is inherently self-referential
Seems Jeff has launched a malicious attack on proof-of-stake, been unsuccessful, and has lost his stake. In this case his reputation.
You can't hand-wave over "complexity" and then call it "opaque" and self referential using a bunch of vague and imprecise analogies. The "step 2 complexity" is where the system justifies itself. It's where it's proven sound. Just because you're too lazy to get into the weeds and technicals of it does not make the system flawed. A casual read of the overview of Ethereum 2's proof-of-stake mechanism[1] would have helped Jeff save his reputation staked on his blog post.
[1] https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/consensus-mechanisms...
spark3k | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Lofi.cafe
So great. Would love to see the track details and maybe some sort of equally low-fi social aspect. Just number of listeners or hearts / something
spark3k | 5 years ago | on: The Deno Company
You want me to google Create React App for you or you good to do it yourself?
spark3k | 5 years ago | on: The Deno Company
Typescript / Javascript have significant reason to exist in their own right.
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